Click on my picture to be a friendJanuary. It’s here and gone already… and I’ve only worn a coat three times!
OK, enough rubbing it in…
Here’s the five most viewed posts on this blog during this month:
Who is Paul Peterson - For the fifth month in a row this post comes in at #1! This means that a lot of you are checking [...]
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Mountain Lake Church does an amazing job of moving people from the big weekend worship experience to a smaller midweek group experience.
Most churches struggle with this because they try to get people to make the move straight from a crowd on the weekend to a group in the week.
Here’s the problem… most people in the [...]
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My friend Pat Burke sent me a great quote today,
“True fulfillment only comes when you wish for others more than you need for yourself.”
What are you wishing for and giving to others?
Do you feel better when you give or receive?
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Some time ago a friend handed me a piece of paper with the following words on it from J. Oswald Sanders,
“A work originated by God and conducted on spiritual principles will surmount the shock of a change in leadership and indeed will probably thrive better as a result.”
I hope this encourages you like it encouraged [...]
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Mark Batterson has a great post on the topic of courage (click here to read it).
A quote worth remembering: The essence of spiritual courage is being more afraid of offending the Holy Spirit than pleasing people!
Mark is going to be one of the speakers at the churchplanters.com conference!
If you haven’t signed up for it yet… [...]
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This is how it’s coming down…
Poor Tadd.
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Well, it’s out now…
A highlight of the churchplanters.com conference is going to be a guitar hero playoff.
The blogosphere is already lighting up with trash talking… so let’s get to it.
At this point we know that the following people will be bringing it…
Gary Lamb
Chris Elrod
Tadd Grandstaff
Dave Anderson
Several others to be named yet, and finally,
Me.
That’s right… I will be [...]
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When we visited Crossroads church last week we saw a LOT of really cool stuff, but one of the coolest things we saw was…
This sign was outside the room reserved for us to meet in!
Coming soon to the Cincinnati area… Walls Down Church!
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Vision is the easiest part of leadership.
Anyone can have a vision. If you want something different or better than what you have or what you are experiencing and you have a sense of what it is you want… you have a vision.
So what is it that keeps people/organizations from achieving their vision? I suggest that [...]
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Gary mentioned that he’s heard rumors of a Guitar Hero tournament at the Churchplanters.com conference.
Hmmmm… seems I have heard rumors of the same.
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